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GUIDE 



Washington 



The whole thing in a nutshell." 



Containing a list of notable objects and places in city and 

vicinity, in order of popular interest ; a cab or foot tour 

of sights within the town limits; an alphabetical 

Index to the various objects and places, and 

a sumnnary of miscellaneous 

information, 

WITH DIAGRAMS. 



De^i^ii^d exprtssly for recreation-tourists wishing to use 
[ . / their own eyes andjucigjnents. 



jf^ Copyright, 1885, by CnARLEb F. Benjamin. 

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NOTABLE OBJFXTS 



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ORDER OF IMPORTANCE. 



The following list attempts .to arrange the pop- 
ular sights of the city and vicinity, according to 
th€ comparative importance that a great majority 
of sight-seers would probably attach to them, after 
seeing them all. The object of the list is to enable 
a visitor, whose stay is short or uncertain, to see 
the most interesting things hrst. Eilsewhere. the 
visitor is shown how to proceed from one object 
to another without wasting time or travel. 

The visitor for a single day would have to forego 
Mount Vernon, Arlington and everything placed 
below the latter, and content himself with a walk 
over and about the Capitol (including the Botan- 
ical Garden, close by it,) and a visit to the Presi- 
dent's house, (including Lafayette Square, op- 
posite,) the Monument, Treasury, State, War and 
Navy Building, National Museum, Patent Office, 
Department of Agriculture and Corcoran Art Gal- 
lery ; and he should take them in this order : 
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Capitol, Botanic Garden, Museum, Agricultural 
Department, Monument (looking in at the adja- 
cent Bureau of P2ngraving and Printing, if he can 
spare the time, ) Treasury, President's House, State, 
War and Navy Building, Art Gallery and Lafayette 
Square, and thence by street car (if not past 3:15 
p. m.) to the Patent Office. 

Compass-Bearings.— The Capitol is the local 
meridian. A hne drawn lengthwise through its 
centre divides the city into East and West sections, 
and a line crosswise through its centre, into North 
and South sections, and this division explains the 
symbols N. E., N. W., S. E. and S. W., appended 
to the names of streets on lamps and corner build- 
ings. The 'Capitol faces directly east ; the streets 
indicated by letters run due east and west; those 
by figures due north and south, and those called 
avenues run diagonally in a variety of directions. 

Of the objects and places named in order of in- 
terest, twenty-six lie west of the Capitol, seven east 
of it, and nine beyond the city boundary. 

The main street is Pennsylvania avenue, from 
the west gate of the Capitol to the east gate of the 
Treasury, one mile long. A little northward is F 
street, running in the same general direction, and 
these streets are crossed, between the Capitol and 
Treasury, by 7th, 9th and 15th streets, and these 
are the streets that the visitor chiefly traverses dur- 
ing his sojourn. 



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Capitol. — Meeting place of Congress and chief 
building in city, visible from Pennsylvania avenue 
(the main thoroughfare) and many other points, bv 
reason of lofty dome. Fronts due east and west. 
Face the bronze statue of Freedom on dome, hav- 
ing classical statue of Washington in the plaza to 
rear, and see, beside the middle steps, Columbus 
and Indian girl, representing" Discovery of America, 
and Hunter and Indian brave, representing Settle- 
ment of America. See above portico, to right of 
observer, group representing Progress of Civiliza- 
tion. See, beneath central porch, statues of War 
and Peace in wall-recesses, and the Rogers' bronze 
doors, with groups in panels representing (begin 
with lower panel, left side of observer) Columbus 
and the Council, Columbus starting for the Court, 
Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella, Colum- 
bus leaving Palos, Landing of the Spaniards (this 
is the top panel, above both doors), Columbus en- 
tering Barcelona, Degradation of Columbus, Death 
of Columbus. Enter the doors into Rotunda, to 
see the paintings on walls, the great fresco in the 
dome by Brumidi, the historical cartoons above the 
paintings, and the statuary groups over the four 
doors. Landing on Plymouth Rock, Penn's Treaty, 
Pocahontas and Captain Smith, and Daniel Boone 
and Indians. Face toward bronze doors, and to the 
right is the way to Statuary Hall and Hall of Rip- 



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resentatives, mid to left the way to Supreme Court 
and Senate Chamber, all on same floor as Rotunda. 
In Statuary Hall notice the peculiar clock. Be- 
yond the Hall of Representatives is the lobby with 
portraits of the Speakers, and, opening from the 
lobby, the Speaker's room. The Supreme Court 
sits in the old Senate Chamber, famous for the elo- 
quent speeches of Webster and Clay. Beyond the 
Senate Chamber is a lobby, from which opens the 
President's room and the Marble room. Turn to 
the left from the Marble room, and out of the lobby 
to the Ladies' Reception room, and, a little fur- 
ther, the Senate bronze doors, one paneled with 
representations of Death of Warren, Rebuke of Lee 
at Monmouth, Hamilton at Siege of Yorktown, and 
Colonist and Hessian ; the other (beginning at 
bottom), Washington at Trenton, Inauguration of 
Washington, Washington Founding the Capitol, 
and Peace. Go back to Rotunda, face away from 
the bronze doors, and straight ahead on same floor 
is the Congressional Library. Return to Rotunda 
and thence to Hall of Representatives, and face 
the Speaker's desk — to the right is a marble stair- 
case, up which see the fresco of an Emigrant Train 
Crossing the Rocky Mountains. From this stair- 
case go to floor below and see frescoes in room of 
Committee on Agriculture, and from here go down 
stairs to basement to inspect ventilating apparatus. 



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Returning to committee room, turn from it to left, 
follow the winding passageway some 700 feet to- 
ivards other end of building, and there see the fres- 
:oed rooms of Senate committees on Military, Na • 
^al, and Indian Affairs. Ascend to floor above by 
stairs near by, and get back to Ladies' Reception 
'oom, and find near there a marble staircase, up 
^vhich see Powell's painting of Perry's Victory on 
Lake Erie, and on floor above Moran's paintings 
of the Yellowstone and the Colorado, Powell's 
tainting is on the eastern staircase of Senate wing, 
md on the western staircase is Walker's painting 
3f the Storming of Chapultepec. Come down that 
staircase and back to Rotunda, and face the bronze 
ioors; then go out of door to left (as if going back 
Senate), and first door on left is entrance to stair- 
vay leading to interior and exterior of dome. In 
he Capitol grounds, to left and rear of Senate wing, 
s the Grotto, worth a visit. This completes the 
isual tour of the Capitol. Salaried attendants are 
Dlentiful about the building, and may be freely 
questioned for information. 

President's House.— Pennsylvania avenue, i'/ 
niles west of Capitol. Hours, 10 to 3. See the 
j^reat East Room and, if possible, Blue and Green 
•ooms. 

'^ Washington Monument.— South from the Pres- 
dent's House, $55 feet high. Elevator and stairs 



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to lookout gallen-. Numerous memorial stones in 
interior wall. 

Mount Vernon.— Home and tomb of Washing- 
ton. Steamer "W. W. Corcoran" from 7th street 
wharf, 10 a. m., each week-day, passing the old 
town of Alexandria, and back to city by 3:30 p. m. 
Fare, one dollar, including admission-fee. Man- 
sion, tomb and grounds shown to each day's party 
by superintendent. 

• Treasury Building.— Pennsylvania avenue, west 
from Capitol, and near President's House. See 
marble Cash Room, on main floor; Rogues' Gal- 
lery and counterfeit plates on third floor, and Re- 
demption Room in basement. Vaults only shown 
on special order from Secretary or Treasurer. 

State, War and Navy Building.— Pennsylvania 
avenue, west from President's House. Original 
Declaration of Independence, Treaties, and other 
exhibits in State Department Library, and see 
Diplomatic Reception Room ; also Navy Depart- 
ment Library and Secretary's room, and portraits 
of Secretaries of War. 

i Bureau of Engraving and Printing.— On 14th 
street, south from Treasury. \'isitors are con- 
ducted over the building and see the machinery 
and processes used in engraving and printing gov- 
ernment bonds, notes and stamps. 



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National Museum.— About five squares from 
last-named place, towards the Capitol. Accessible 
from Pennsylvania avenue by 7th, 9th or loth 
street. Contains many exhibits of foreign govern- 
ments at the Centennial Exposition and numerous 
natural histor}% geological and other scientific col- 
lections. Adjoining it is the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, " for the increase and diltusion of knowledge 
among men," administered by the Government ; 
the architecture of the building being strikingly 
peculiar. The park in w^hich these buildings stand 
was designed by Downing, the famous landscape 
gardener. 

Patent Office. — On F street, six squares east of 
the Treasury and northwest from the Capitol. The 
model rooms are the points of interest, and see in 
them Frankhn's press and the model of Lincoln's 
patent of 1847. 

Department of Agriculture. — Between the 
2\aiional Museum, and Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing. See the museum, tlie conservator)- and 
occasional exhibits in the annex. 

Dead Letter Office. — In Post Office Department 
on F street, opposite Patent Office. The curiosities 
are arranged into a museum. See also the ac- 
count books of Franklin as postmaster-general, in 
Auditor's offi.ce. 



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Corcoran Art Gallery. — Pennsylvania avenue 
and 1 7th street, opposite War Department. Free 
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; other 
week days, 25 cents. Large collection of paintings, 
statuary and casts from anticjue sculptures. 

Arlington. — Former home of General Robert E. 
Lee. About one mile beyond Aqueduct bridge at 
(Georgetown. vSee mansion, soldiers' cemetery and 
monument to the unknown. 

Army Medical Museum.— On loth street, near 
F street, nearly two squares from Patent Office. 
Building in which President Lincoln was shot, and 
tablet on house opposite marks where he died. 
See museum on upper floor. 

Lafayette Square. — Pennsylvania avenue, op- 
posite President's House. Planted with choice 
trees, and see statue of General Jackson, made of 
guns captured in battle of New Orleans. The 
horse is balanced on hind feet without supports or 
stays. 

Naval Arsenal. — Commonly called the Navy 
Yard. Southeast of the Capitol, about a mile, at 
terminus of Washington and Georgetown street 
railroad. See the museum, and numerous shops, 
foundries and forges for the making of cannon, 
shells, anchors, cables, marine machinery, and 
every kind of metal work for naval purposes. 



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Government Printing Office. — Seven squares 
north from Capitol. Here the visitor sees the arts 
of printing and book binding exercised in the larg- 
est establishment in the world. 

National Observatory. — Seven squares west 
and three south of State, War and Navy Building, 
foot of 24th street, overlooking Potomac river. See 
the telescopes in the two domes, and some of the 
rare books shown in the library. 

Soldiers' Home.— Reached by horse car from 
head of 7th street. An asylum for old regulars, 
situated in a large beautiful park, much used for 
carriage drives. There are numerous buildings m 
the park, including the summer cottage assigned to 
the President, also a lake with swans. Near the 
large main building is a national cemetery, which 
should be visited. 

Insane Asylum. — Across the Anacostia river 
from the Naval Arsenal, and reached by horse car 
passing the gate of the latter. A large establish- 
ment supported by the Government. Open on 
Wednesdays only, from 2 to 6 p. m. 

Botanical Garden. — Pennsylvania avenue, just 
west of the Capitol. See the collection of tropical 
plants in the conservatory, inquiring, if necessary, 
for the bread, india-rubber, tallow, camphor, papy- 
rus, banana, vanilla and hat-palm plants; also 
see the fountain in the garden. 



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Ordnance Museum. — In large, white, corner 
building, 17th street, opposite War and Navy 
Building. See especially the Confederate battle 
flags, but the room has many other interesting 
objects. 

Signal Office. — Less than two squares from the 
last-named place, on G street, distinguishable by 
vanes and electric wires above the roof. See the 
instrument room, where are the appliances used 
for predicting the state of the weather over the en- 
tire country. 

Oak Hill Cemetery. — In Georgetown, accessible 
by street-cars. See the chapel near entrance, with 
tomb of John Howard Payne close by it. Chiet 
Justice Chase, Secretary Stanton, and Professor 
Henry are also buried here. 

Georgetown University.— A Jesuit college at 
the western end of Georgetown, nearly a century 
old. There are numerous ancient and costly books 
and manuscripts, and see also the chemical labora- 
tory. 

Thomas Statue. — Vermont avenue, near M 
street, six squares north, and a little east of the 
President's House. A bronze equestrian group, 
executed by Ward for the Society of the Army of 
the Cumberland. 

Congressional Cemetery. -Eleven squares east 



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of the Naval Arsenal, actually the burial ground 
of old Christ Church. It was formerly the custom 
for Congress to erect a memorial to each member 
dying during his term and about 1 50 of such ceno- 
taphs are in the grounds. Monuments to George 
Clinton, William Wirt, Elbridge Gerry, and Gen- 
eral Macomb also exist. Commodore Chauncey is 
buried here. See the monument to the young 
women killed by an explosion at the arsenal dur- 
ing the civil war. 

Lincoln Park. — Eleven squares directly east 
from the Capitol. See the bronze group, "Eman- 
cipation," erected by Freedmen to the memory of 
President Lincoln. 

Potomac Railroad Depot.— Six squares west of 
Capitol, and just south of Pennsylvania avenue. 
See, in floor of Ladies' Waiting-room, the silvered 
star, marking where President Garfield was assas- 
sinated. 

Pension Ofiice. — In Judiciary Square, four 
squares north from Pennsylvania avenue by Four 
and half street, and in rear of City Hall. A unique 
departmental building, designed by General Meigs, 
and ornamented with scenes of army life, in relief, 
on the exterior walls. The large court-yard was 
roofed and decorated as the Cleveland Inaugura- 
tion ball-room. 



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Great Falls of Potomac. — A series of cascades, 
1 5 miles beyond Georgetown, up the river. Round- 
trip fare by steam canal-boat, 50 cents, leaving 
Georgetown 8 a. m., daily. 

Alexandria. — An old town, seven miles down 
the Potomac, and accessible by ferry from 7th street, 
or train from Potomac depot. See Christ church, 
and the pews therein of George Washington and 
Robert E. Lee. 

Marine Barracks. — A short distance up from 
the gate of the Naval Arsenal, and headquarters 
of the Marine Corps. The armory or museum is 
shown to visitors. 

Scott Statue. — Seven sc{uares straight out from 
Pennsylvania avenue front of President's House. 
Designed by Browne, and cast from Mexican can- 
non captured by General Scott. 

Coast Survey Building.— Close to the south 
boundary of the Capitol grounds, on New Jersey 
avenue. See the standard weights and measures^ 
and testing instruments for the same. 

Deaf and Dumb Asylum and College.— About 
a mile north, and slightly to the west of Lincoln 
Park. 

Carp Ponds. — Close to Washington Monument, 
a Government establishment for the breeding of 
carp for free distribution over the United States. 



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Rock Creek Church.— An ancient church and 
cemetery, the former built of Enghsh bricks ; situ- 
ated near the Soldiers' Home. See the old Bible 
and antiquated tombstones. 

Providence Hospital.— A large infirmary in 
charge of Sisters of Charity, and liberally aided by 
Congress. 

Columbian University.— One square north of 
Treasury, H and 1 5th streets. Visitors directed to 
objects of interest. 

Franklin School.— A short distance northeast of 
last-named building; the model public school of 
Washington. 

Central Market.— Pennsylvania avenue, 7th to 
9th streets, halfway between Capitol and Treasury, 
the largest market house in the United States. 

Arsenal Barracks.— On river front, foot of Four 
and Half street, occupied by garrison of Washing- 
ton. Grounds open from sunrise to sunset. 

TOUR OF THE SIGHTS BY CAB OR AFOOT. 

{The_fig-urcs correspond with those of the Map.) 

The Capitol is always first visited. Leave it by 
way of the Rotunda and through the bronze doors 
and turn, right, to Coast Survey, 2 ; thence, by way 
of Providence Hospital, 3, to Marine Barracks, 4, 
and Navy Yard, 5 ; thence to Congressional Cem- 



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etery, 6, and backward and northward to Lincoln 
Park, 7, and so, past statue of General Greene, 8, 
to Government Printing Office, 9. From here re- 
turn towards rear of Capitol and past Naval Mon- 
ume7it, \o, to Botanical Garden, 11 ; thence west- 
ward, across the long chain of parks, to Natio7ial 
Museum, 12, Smithso?tian Institution, 13, Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, 14, Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing, 15, Moiiument, 16, and Carp Ponds, 
17 ; thence past Light Infaiitry Armory, 18, to 
Treasury, 19, President's House, 20, State, War 
and Navy Building, 21, Ordnance Mttseum, 22, 
and Signal Office, 23. From here still westward to 
Observatory, 24 ; thence to Washington Equestrian 
Statue, 25 ; thence westward to Georgetown Col- 
lege, 26, and backward and northward to Oak Hill 
Cemetery, 27, and still eastward, past Dupont 
Statue, 28, British Legation, 29, to Scott Statue, 
30, Louise Home, 31, and Thomas Statue, 32; 
thence to Fra7iklin Square, 33, Mc Pherson Statue, 
34, and Earragut Statue, 35 ; thence to Art Gal- 
lery, 36, and Lafayette Square, 37 ; thence past 
Columbian University , 38, and by way of the Treas- 
ury and F street to Army Medical Aluseum, 39, 
Pate7it Office, 40, and Post Office Departrnent, 41 ; 
thence southward to Centre Market, 42, and Poto- 
m.ac Depot, 43 ; thence past City Hall, 44, to Pen- 
sion Office, 45. 



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By using street car from Coast Survey to Navy 
Yard ; Herdic public phaeton from Pennsylvania 
avenue and 8th street east (just above Marine 
Barracks) to Congressional Cemetery, and street 
cars from Printing Office to Botanical Garden ; 
Washington Equestrian Statue to Georgetown Col- 
lege; Georgetown College to Oak Hill; Oak Hill 
to Lafayette Square, and Lafayette Square to 
Medical Museum, the tour can be made afoot, in 
two days, with reasonable time for inspection — the 
second day's tour beginning, of course, where the 
first was ended. 

A cab, coupe or carriage might be engaged for 
the two days at a reduction from the regular rate 
per hour, and if such be used, the Deaf and Dumb 
Asylum and Mount Olivet Cemetery (Roman 
Catholic) might be visited from Lincoln Park ; 
Arlmgtoji, on the way to Georgetown College, and 
the Soldiers Home after the Patent and Post 
Offices. The latter can be reached by street car 
passing the Patent Office, and the Insane Asylum 
can be visited any Wednesday afternoon, by street 
car from 7th street wharf or Navy Yard. 

GENERAL INFORMATION. 

In 1790, Congress enacted that the Federal 
Capital should be permanently estabhshed near 
the head of navigation on the Potomac, and Presi- 



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dent Washington selected the site and gave 
much personal attention to the details of laying it 
out. Andrew Ellicott, an American, was the chief 
engineer ; but his assistant, Major L' Enfant, a 
French engineer, had magnificent ideas, derived 
from the royal town and park of Versailles, and 
these are perpetuated in the wide rectangular 
streets, broad intersecting avenues and numerous 
squares, circles and triangular spaces of the 
modern city. 

Congress and the Executive removed to the Fed- 
eral City in 1800, and after a short period of fev- 
erish and ruinous speculation in town lots by single 
capitalists and syndicates from the North and 
P2urope, (the chief result of which was to build up 
the lower priced sites in rear of the Capitol, while 
inflation made a desert of the choice ground in 
front,) the city settled down to a slow and quiet 
growth, which lasted till after the civil war. In 
1870 began that gigantic and extravagant era of 
street improvement and embellishment, which has 
carried Washington to the front rank of beautiful 
cities. Broad, smooth, clean pavements ; lawns 
and shade trees, and handsome parks abound, 
and the landscape is dotted with public buildings 
of extraordinary size and grandeur. Business and 
residential structures are still mostly small and 
plain, but a new West-End has grown up since 



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1870, that rivals the fashionable quarters of the 
opulent commercial cities. 

Down to 1 87 1 the city was governed by a mayor 
and council elected by popular vote ; but municipal 
corruption and inefficiency so imperilled the Fed- 
eral interests centered in the capital, that Congress 
substituted for the electoral system an appointed 
board of commissioners, and provided a revenue 
made up one-half from private taxation, and the 
other half by a yearly grant from the Federal treas- 
ury. The jurisdiction of the com.missioners extends 
over the entire Federal territory, called the District 
of Columbia, and consisting of the cities of Wash- 
ington and Georgetown, three or four hamlets, and 
a considerable number of larms, amounting in all 
to some 64 square miles, with a population in 1885 
of fully 200,000, of whom about i8o,oco are in the 
practically united cities of Washington and George- 
town. 

The city sits above a broad and picturesque river, 
and is enchained by a range of wooded hills. The 
climate is healthy and agreeable, and the concen- 
tration here of the high officials engaged in na- 
tional legislation and administration forms an 
active and interesting social life ; the result of these 
causes being that Washington is becoming dis- 
tinctively the social as well as the political capital 
of the country. 



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Washington is excellently supplied with hotels 
restaurants, churches, theatres, street-cars, cabs 
and carriages, and newspapers, and its railw-iy and 
steamboat connections are abundant. Local and 
railroad time are the same, being that of the east- 
ern meridian. 

The principal hotels are the Arhngton, Belve- 
dere (European), Ebbitt, Harris, Metropolitan, Na- 
tional. Riggs, St. James (European), St.^ Marc (Eu- 
ropean), Welcker's, Willard's, and Wormley's. 

The principal churches are St. Matthew's (Ro- 
man Catholic), Epiphany (Episcopal), New York 
Avenue (Presbyterian), Metropolitan (Methodist) 
Calvary (Baptist), Congregational (Independent),' 
All Souls (Unitarian), Memorial (Lutheran), Chris- 
tian (Campbellite), and Washington Hebrew (Is- 
raelite), and there are two sects of Quakers. 

The leading theatres are Albaugh's Ooera House 
National, Ford's Opera House, Theatre Comique 
(Variety), Herzog's Museum, Dime Museum, and 
Abner's Music Garden. 

The railroads are the Baltimore & Ohio, to east 
and west, and Baltimore & Potomac, to east, west 
and south. 

There are five street railroads, with numerous 
branches, intersecting and traversing the entire 
city, but the visitor had better rely upon inquiries 
made whenever he wishes to ride, or to make 
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By taking the street cars to the river front, steam- 
boats maybe found for Alexandria, Mount Vernon, 
Fort Monroe, Norfolk, and other points; but for 
particulars see the newspaper aunouncements. 

Cab and hack fares are 75 cents per hour, or 25 
cents per mile, for the two-wheeled cabs, one dol- 
lar per hour for the one-horse four-wheelers, and 
31.50 per hour, or one dollar from railroad depot 
or steamboat wharf, for two-horse carriages ; hotel 
busses, 25 and 50 cents per trip. 

Guides are frequently employed by tourists, at 
50 cents per hour, but are of httle service to an 
active sight-seer, accustomed to use his own eyes, 
ears and tongue, and should invariably be identi- 
fied in some way before being engaged, as decoys 
for gamblers, card-sharpers and other swindlers 
often pretend to be guides, in order to procure 
victims. Even a genuine guide is apt to annoy 
his patrons by his stereotyped talk and manner. 

There are two morning and two evening news- 
papers, which should always be examined for local 
news and information. 



INDEX TO SIGHTS AlND 
INFORMATION. 



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Agricultural Department 1 1 

Alexandria i6 

Arlington 12 

Army Medical Museum , 12 

Arsenal Barracks 17 

Art Gallery 12 

Avenues 20 

Battle Flags 14 

Botanical Garden 13 

British Legation iS 

Bronze Doors . 7 

Brumidi's Frescoes 7 

Cab Fares 23 

Capitol 7 

Carp Ponds 16 

Cash Room 10 

Centre Market 17 

Churches 22 

City Hall iS 

Climate 21 

Coast Survey 16 

Columbus 7 

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Compass Points 

Confederate Flags • ^^ 

Congress ' 

Congressional Cemetery : 4 

Library ^ 

Corcoran Art Gallery ^^ 

Counterfeiting Exhibit 

Dead Letter Office " 

Deaf and Dumb Asylum ^ 

Declaration of Independence ^^ 

Diplomatic Reception Room ^° 

District of Columbia ^^ 

Dome of Capitol 9 

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Doors of Capitol ^ 

Dupont Statue 

Emancipation Statue 5 

Engraving and Printing Bureau 1° 

Executive Mansion 9 

Farragut Statue 

Fish Ponds ^ 

Franklin's Account Books ^^ 

Franklin's Press 

Franklin School ^^ 

Franklin Square 

Freedom Statue ' 

Frescoes of Capitol ^ 

Garfield Assassination Memorial ^5 

Geological Exhibits 1 1 

Georgetown University • '+ 



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Government Printing Office i ^ 

Great Falls of Potomac . ib 

Greene Statue i8 

Grotto 9 

Guides 23 

Hack Fares 23 

Historical Information 19 

Hotels 22 

Insane Asylum 13 

Jackson Statue 12 

Lafayette Square 12 

Liberty Statue 7 

Lincoln Park 15 

Lincoln's Patent 1 1 

Louise Home 18 

McPherson Statue 18 

Marble Room 8 

Marine Barracks 16 

Medical Museum 12 

Meridian Point 6 

Model Rooms 11 

Monument 9 

Mount Olivet Cemetery 19 

Mount Vernon 10 

Museum 11 

National Museum 11 

Naval Monument 18 

Navy Department lo 

" Yard 12 



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Newspapers 23 

Note Printing 10 

Oak Hili Cemetery 14 

C)bservatory 13 

Opera House 22 

Ordnance Museuin 14 

Paintings at Art Gallery 12 

" " Capitol 7 

Palm Trees 13 

Patent Office 11 

Payne, John Howard 14 

Pennsylvania Avenue 6 

Pension Office 15 

Perambulation of Sights 17 

Population 21 

Post Office Department 1 1 

Potomac Great Falls 16 

" Railroad Depot 15 

President's House 9 

Printing and Engraving Bureau 10 

Printing Office 13 

Providence Hospital 17 

Railroads 22 

Redemption Bureau 10 

Representative's Hall S 

Rogers' Bronze Door 7 

Rogues' Gallery 10 

Rotunda 7 

Scenery at Washington 21 



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VAIiT. 

Scott Statue i6 

Sculptures at Art Gallery 12 

" " Cajiitol 7 

Senate Chamber 8 

" Doors 8 

Signal Office 14 

Smithsonian Institution 11 

Society at Washington 21 

Soldiers' Home 13 

Speaker's Room 8 

Standard Time 22 

State Department 10 

Statuary at Art Gallery 12 

" Capitol 7 

Hall 8 

Steamboats 23 

Street System ... 6 

Supreme Court 8 

Telescope at Observatory 13 

Theatres 22 

Thomas Statue 14 

Time Standard . 22 

Treasury Department 10 

Treaties 10 

Unknown Dead at Arlington 1 2 

Vaults at Treasury 10 

War Department 10 

Washington Classical Statue 7 

" Equestrian Statue 19 



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Washington Mansion lo 

" Monument 9 

" Pew 16 

'' Tomb 10 

Weather Report Service 14 

Weights and Measures 16 

White House 9 



Price, Ten Cents. 

A-B-C 

GUIDE 

TO 

WASHINGTON 



The whole thing in a nutshell.' 



Containing a list of notable objects and places in city and 

vicinity, in order of popular interest ; a cab or foot tour 

of sights within the town limits; an alphabetical 

index to the various objects and places, and 

a summary of miscellaneous 

information. 

WITH DIAGRAMS. 



Designed expressly for recreation-tourists wishing to use 
their o%vn eyes and judgments . 



Copyright, 1885, by Charles F. Benjamin. 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 
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